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BBQ blog goes down in California

For a good portion of today this website’s hosting company was experiencing server issues. This temporarily led to the inability of the world to access the BBQ Junkie blog. Sorry for the inconvenience Everything seems to be working now and the world can now continue celebrating the art of BBQ by reading the pages of [...]

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BBQ in the 805

People are always asking me where can they taste some authentic slow smoked BBQ. Without going as far as inviting them over for an afternoon of deliciousness, I usually refer them one of the local BBQ competitions. They will usually have a tasting booth available to the public. Regrettably, a few of those have been [...]

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Suburban Cylinder Express

Some people prefer propane to charcoal because of the convenience that it offers. Get home, flip the switch and you are cooking dinner in less than time than it takes to say BBQ tri tip. But using propane can have it’s own set of downfalls… like, lets say, running out of gas in the middle [...]

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Natural-Born Griller

Thanks Benny for referring me to this month’s edition of the AARP magazine. It features an article by Steven Slon that is written after attending Steven Raichlen’s 3-day BBQ course. He offers up some tips, recipes and a few anecdotes about his experience. At the end of the three days it seems we’ve cooked everything [...]

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Rose Bowl BBQ competition postponed

Our competition BBQ team, Four-Q BBQ, was on schedule to compete in the Rose Bowl cook-off on the weekend of August 19th …when all of a sudden we find out that it has been cancelled. There have been a couple of other local BBQ competitions that have been called off this year. This really sucks. [...]

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Big Bob Gibson’s pork butt

Pork Butts about to come out of the Barbecue. I’ve had the BBQ book Peace love and Barbecue for some time now and haven’t really dedicated myself to its content nearly enough. Today, the 4th of July 2006, I have. There is a recipe for pork butt included in this book that has garnered so [...]

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Cleaning spareribs

Rack of ribs pre-trimming I got back from Costco last night and started prepping six racks of ribs for the 4th of July barbecue. No, it’s not crucial that they be prepped that far in advance but it does let you front load some of your work so that you can spend more time in [...]

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BBQ menu for the 4th

I’m going to toss this one out there to anyone who wants to reply. I am curious… what everyone out there is cooking up for the 4th of July? My cooking responsibilities are the BBQ pork butt and ribs. I am going to cook the pork butt overnight using the minion method and have it [...]

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